Bathtub



Sept. 29, 1931. JARMUSZ 1,825,188

BATHTUB Filed Sept. 9. 1929 Queen; 0, l

Patented Sept. 29, 1931 PAULINE JARMUSZ, or GARY, INDIANA BATHTUB,

Application filed September 9; 1929. Serial No. 391,365.

The drawing shows a bath tub which can be used as a urinal and as a slop drain with out inconvenience to a person who is taking a bath in the tub, the construction being such that grease and floating dirt may be permitted to flow away, leaving in the tub a large body of water which is much cleaner than the scum that has been permitted to run off into the drain, the tub embodying 0 a small auxiliary tank wherein a woman may wash her hair, and wherein greasy hands or dirty feet may be cleaned, before the bath proper is begun, it being unnecessary to take a bath in water which is too foul for ablutlon at the time when the operation of taking a bath starts. To provide such a tub, or any other tub, with a novel means for delivering the bathing water, is the ob]ect of this invention. in It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally, and to enhance the utility of, devices of that type to wh1ch the present invention appertains.

With the foregoing and other ob e cts 1n view, which will appear as the descr1pt1on proceeds, the invention resides 1n the combination and arrangement of parts and In the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes may be made in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying draw1ngs:

Figure 1 shows in top plan a bath tub embodying one form of the invention.

Figure 2 is a longitudinal section;

Figure 3 is a cross section.

In the drawings there is shown a bath tub comprising a body 1 having a transverse partition 2 dividing the tub into a main compartment 3 and a tank 4 at one end of the compartment 3, the partition being so placed that the main compartment is much larger than the tank. The partition 2 is of less height than theside wall of the tub. An overflow 5 is provided and may be located in the tank 4. The overflow 5 consists simply of any desired number of short upright slots, opening into a pipe. 50, and

there is'no chance for the outlet to become clogged, or prove a nuisance in any other way. The main compartment 3 has an outlet 6, and an outlet 7 for the tank 4 is shown, the outlets 6 and 7 being closed by the usual plugs 8, or in any desired way. The out lets 6 and 7 may communicate with the pipe 50. The back wall of the tub has an inclined chute 9, and faucets or outlet members 10 are formed integrally with the chute, and discharge down the chute. The faucets 10 are so constructed that pipe couplings 51 may be threaded into them, the controlling means 52 for the faucets being mounted in the wall 11 of the bath room, if desired. 65 The form under discussion is used chiefly on new work, where the pipes are not already so placed that they do not have to be coupled to faucets at the end of the tub.

The tank 4 may be used as a place for washing soiled hands and the like, it being impossible for the water in the tank 4 to mingle with the cleaner water in the compartment 3. The bather can expectorate into the tank 4, or use it for any purpose which would not be permissible in connection with the compartment 3. Moreover, whilst the bather is washing himself in the compartment 3, another person can empty a bucket into the tank 4 or use it as atoilet, without in anywise disturbing the bather in the compartment 3, or contaminating the water in the compartment 3. From time to time, the operator can let a little water into the main compartment 3 from the faucetslO and the chute 9, an overflow from the main compartment 3 into the tank 4 being created. Thus, grease, soap suds, and all floating dirt will go over the partition 2 into the tank 4, and leave the tank by the outlet 7, the water in the main compartment 3 being kept in a condition which is clean, compared with the floating stuff that has passed over the upper edge of the partition 2.

What is claimed is 7 0 A bath tub provided at the upper edge of one of its walls with an open chute discharging into the tub and including a bottom which is downwardly and inwardly inclined to the inner surface of the tub, the

bottom of the chute being provided with a raised outlet member extended longitudinally of the chute and connected integrally throughout its entire length with the bottom of the chute, the outlet member having its outlet end set backwardly from the inner end of the chute and from the inner surface of the tub, the intake end of the outlet member opening through the bottom of the chute independently of said wall of the tub, the outlet member being housed completely within the chute.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto afiixed my sig nature.

PAULINE J ARMUSZ. 

